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Dad made it quite clear: If he ever caught my older brother smoking reefer, he'd be out of the house. If Dad ever found the stuff in the house, he'd be out of the house. The word was marijuana would lead to harder drugs because it was a well-known fact that hard drug users got their start with marijuana. Plus, you could go to jail. Plus, you could die like Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. Practically every drug film we saw in our Daniel Webster Junior High School health class talked about the bad effect that marijuana and other drugs had on people's lives. You don't need that stuff in your life, he said. Whereas I dutifully followed our dad's words to a fault, my...

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Dad made it quite clear: If he ever caught my older brother smoking reefer, he'd be out of the house. If Dad ever found the stuff in the house, he'd be out of the house.
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